The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-09

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THE streets OF Vienna are swept and
washed every morning pf-
P:NgEyE has made its appearance among
Battle Creek (Mich.) horses.
The harp as a fashionable instrument
grows in favor in New York.
A FUND to keep Godsniith's grave in
order has been started in London.
TuE capacity Of the United States steel
rail factories is 3,G7l, 900 tons year.
Mn. GREEN and Miss Blue, both black,
are lcen sed to wed in Lycoming, Pa. n
MIssELIZABETnP EABoDY,the enthusiastic
kiudergartner, is past eighty-three years
old.
THE question Of teaching German in the
public schools is under discussion in st.
Louis. nr ..--~.-
AN effort is being made to unite tho coal
miners of this country into national or
ganization.
THREE New York saloon-keepers have
been sentenced to break stone in the Jail
for selling liquor on Sunday.
A TERRIBLE disease, known as black
smallpox, is raging in parts of Mexico,
and has crossed into Arizona.
A TURKEY which when dressed weighed
twenty four pounds is one of the produc-
tions which Cole County, Mo-, brags of.
A GOLD nugget weighing 22H ounces and
valued at $3.50 was picked up by George
Lilies on his place claim at Atlanta, Idaho.
The latest thing in albums is the hand
and foot album, the leaves of which
contain outlines, life size, Of the hand or
foot.
PREPARATIONS are being made in st.
Paul for the winter carnival and the work
Ofrebuilding the ice palace will begin ere
long.
A MERRILL (Wis) business man bought
white COW, and after duly embellishing
her with advertisements let her run the
streets.
J. q. A. WARD has been selected as the
sculptor for the Beecher monument, for
which fund Of $4,000 is already SUBJ
scribed
An exchange says Nina Van Zandt and
George Francis Train ought to get married
and then star the country as the greatest
living fools. q 49,
THE husks on Indian corn are thin, and
the golden rod was yellower than usual.
This, the weatherwise say, is Indicative
of an open winter. ...
A GRANITE shaft in memory of the Con-
federate General "Jeb' Stuart Is shortly
to be erected near Yellow Tavern, Va,
whore he was killed.
A new lathe has been invented that
turns a square cornered stick to,fit the
hole made by the square bore auger, in
vented few years ago.
CHAUTAuQUA COUNTY, Kan, in which
lola is situated, has gone into cotton rails
ing, and will ship about thirty carloads
this year. 1t is ginned at lola.
A PENNsYLvANA syndicate has pur.
chased 10000 acres of ore lands in Walker
County, Ga, and will erect furnaces and
build railroad to Chattanooga.
THE bitter feeling between Germany
and Russia has broken out afrcsh, and
both countries are building fortcations
along their respective frontiers.
THERE are now 933 convicts in tho Kansas
penitcntiary. Up to the present time q
large force has been employed upon the
extension Of the present building.
the King Of Corea furnished his winter
palace with $4,000 worth of American
chairs, beds and tables He also bought
m American steamer for $4,000.
the U. S. Consul at Dcmerara report.
that the planters in that colony are aban
doning the English market and manufac
turing sugars for the United States.
AN advertisement in Georgia paper fol
. man to watch a store in Tampa, Fla.
during the yellow fever epidemic, was an
swered by upwards OF a score OF persons
AvETERAN clock-repairera at Moodus, CT.
has made himself coffin from a chestn,
log, in which he wishes to DO cremated
becoming sort of roasted chestnut as i
were. Ft '''
THE Mexican Government has contract
led with an American to plant 9, OK, 600 tree
in the Mexican Valley. The varieties ar,
ito he ash, poplar, acacia and mountain
cedar. FAii4Nttt-
JAMES d. FISH, ex-president of tn,
Marine Bank, who is now in Auburn
prison, is said to DO one of the most patient
well disciplined and uncomplaining me,
in that institution.
Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsroR pays her chic
cook $1,000 per annum, and then has Il
content herself with eating the PLANES
kind of fare. She is troubled with dys
pepsia in its worst form.
DIR. LUCIEN HOWE says blindness is or
the increase in the United States, and tina
we now have with US fifty thousand blind
Contagion and immigration are set dowr
among the chief causes.
Turpr a ri ~ choo1 -
New York, that is for women only. A
small sign beside the doorway says
Fencing school for ladies'. Gives health
strength, beauty and grace"
THE president of the Western Union Tel
egraph company announces the company.
intention to make a uniform rate of twon
fy-fve cents for ten words between an,
two points in the same State.
A GERMAN brass finisher, who commit
ted suicide In New York boarding
house, left note for the landlady, sayins
shat he was sorry to trouble her. but tn,
weather compelled him to kill himself in
doors.
TRR tower which is being erected by tn,
Russians on the highest point Of tn
Mount OF Olives is already several stories
high, and but one more is to be added. l
IS to be- so high that both the Meditcr
raneansand Dead Sea may be seen from
the top. 49,.
A RAILROAD station agent at Dunkirk
n T., in his leisure time has whitfield GU
s. Of 80 pieces of wood q perfect model Of
locomotive and tender. He was fv
months at the job.